A little extra on the Minaya/Rubin story. Before last night’s, frankly, brilliant game (in which Jerry Manuel sent his clean-up hitter up to bunt with 2 on and no outs and then sent in a man to pinch-hit who has hit into double plays 28% of the times he has been in that situation and came away with 4 runs. Jerry 1 – 0 Me.) SNY’s commentary team of Gary Cohen, Ron Darling and Keith Hernandez dissected the whole debacle.
The Daily News ran a transcript of the conversation today that I can only describe as ‘irritating’. If you can put up with the capital letters and spelling mistakes that leave me to believe that the conversation was transcribed by some sort of rudimentary voice-recognition programme, it’s well worth reading. It’s also worth bearing in mind that SNY is owned by the Mets, in the same way YES Network is owned by the Yankess. You absolutely, positively would not hear this sort of discussion on YES. This is why Gary, Keith and Ron are simply brilliant.

The Daily News have, predictably, gone all out for Minaya today. The Gary, Keith and Ron story, you will notice, comes with a poll asking readers whether Omar Minaya should be “Fire[d], Omar’s cheap shot at Adam Rubin should cost him his job”, “Force[d] to apologize, his wishy-washy mea culpa afterward wasn’t enough” or, added perhaps as a bit of an afterthought, “ignored”. I’d venture the News don’t really want you to chose the last option.